\n<\/aside>\nFormer friends of Matt Lauer are seeing less and less of the disgraced newsman.<\/p>\n
Five years after his ouster from NBC’s \u201cToday\u201d show \u2014 as well as the release of former co-host Katie Couric’s memoir \u201cGoing There\u201d in 2021 \u2014 Lauer, 64, has \u201ckind of withdrawn from several friendships in the last year.\u201d<\/p>\n
A source told People recently that the embattled talk show host \u201cwas really upset\u201d by Couric’s book. \u201cShe shared their private text messages and she semi-slammed him. It made him lose trust.\u201d<\/p>\n
The insider added, \u201cHis level of trust has just diminished with a lot of people he considered friends and much of that was because of Katie’s book, and because talking to people from his past is painful.\u201d<\/p>\n
In November 2017, Lauer was fired from \u201cToday\u201d over sexual harassment and misconduct.<\/p>\n
In the 65-year-old’s tell-all, she described that she \u201cheard the whispers\u201d about Lauer’s bad behavior, including from one female colleague who allegedly confided that she’d received a dirty email from Couric’s co-host.<\/p>\nA source for Matt Lauer (right) has said the disgraced \u201cToday\u201d show host \u201cwas really upset\u201d by the release of Katie Couric’s memoir, \u201cGoing There,\u201d in 2021.<\/figcaption>NBCU Photo Bank\/NBCUniversal via<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nThe \u201cToday\u201d show anchors co-hosted the morning show together from 1997 to 2006.<\/figcaption>Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nIn her book, Couric claimed that Lauer confessed he was distraught that he \u201ccan’t even put [his] arm around\u201d the women who came into his office crying.<\/p>\n
She penned that she couldn’t \u201cimagine such a scene taking place,\u201d and reminded Lauer that \u201che cannot do that \u2014 you cannot put your arm around them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Elsewhere in her memoir, she insisted that Lauer was a \u201cdecent\u201d man despite being fired, and her \u201cheart sank\u201d when she heard the news.<\/p>\n\u201cToday\u201d show hosts Al Roker (from left), Savannah Guthrie, Matt Lauer and Hoda Kotb on the Sept. 26, 2017, episode.<\/figcaption>NBCU Photo Bank\/NBCUniversal via<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nSavannah Guthrie announced the damning report on air during a broadcast of the hit morning news show. \u201cThis is a sad morning at ‘Today’ and NBC News,\u201d Guthrie said at the time, adding that she was told of the incident just moments before going live.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs I’m sure you can understand, we are devastated. I’m heartbroken for Matt. He is my dear, dear friend and partner,\u201d the now-50-year-old anchor continued.<\/p>\n
While she noted that she was sad for the woman who accused Lauer of misconduct, she added that \u201cThis reckoning that so many organizations have been going through is important. It’s long overdue, and it must result in workplaces where all women \u2014 all people \u2014 feel safe and respected.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Former friends of Matt Lauer are seeing less and less of the disgraced newsman. Five years after his ouster from NBC’s \u201cToday\u201d show \u2014 as well as the release of former co-host Katie Couric’s memoir \u201cGoing There\u201d in 2021 \u2014 Lauer, 64, has \u201ckind of withdrawn from several friendships in the last year.\u201d A source …<\/p>\n
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